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Through the app employed in the study researchers were able to identify which kind of personal information the app extracted and its privacy sensitivity according to users. "Users are largely unaware of the privacy implications of some permissions they grant to apps and services, in particular when it comes to location tracking information", explains Musolesi.
Password Auditor does what its namesake implies by scanning all user accounts within your environment to detect leaked passwords. Specops maintains a dictionary of compromised passwords; should any user passwords match, Password Auditor highlights them within the tool.
CrowdStrike announced expanded Cloud Security Posture Management and Cloud Workload Protection capabilities for the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to deliver greater control, visibility and security for cloud workloads and cloud-native applications from build to runtime. The expanded CSPM and CWP capabilities for the CrowdStrike Falcon platform identify and remediate vulnerabilities from development to production for a wide variety of cloud environments, including containers.
Veeam Software announced general availability of new Veeam Backup & Replication v11, enabling the most advanced data protection solution for cloud, virtual, physical and enterprise workloads. "Veeam released V10 with more than 150 new enhancements just 12 months ago, and now has more than 700,000 downloads. Being able to launch the next version - Veeam Backup & Replication v11 - with an additional 200 new and powerful backup, cloud, DR, security and automation enhancements speaks volumes to Veeam's speed of innovation, as well as our strong commitment to the needs and data reliability demands of our customers and partners," said Danny Allan, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam.
Adaptiva announced its new content delivery network, which has been tightly integrated into OneSite Cloud. The Adaptiva CDN is included in the OneSite Cloud license at no additional charge so that Adaptiva customers can keep content storage and distribution services all under a single agreement.
Millions of COVID-19 test reports were found to be publicly accessible due to flawed online system implementation. The leak, comprising over 8 million COVID-19 test results, has been attributed to the Health and Welfare Department of West Bengal, India.
In response to a security breach that exposed personal information from around 1.6 million unemployment claims filed last year, the Washington Senate has unanimously passed a measure that creates a state Office of Cybersecurity. The measure, passed by the chamber on Wednesday, creates the new office within the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
AWS Control Tower provides a simple way to set up and govern a secure multi-account AWS environment, with established best practices. This new integration provides cost management features that complement AWS Control Tower and help streamline spend management for customers at scale.
Mavenir announced a strategic collaboration with Red Hat to certify Mavenir applications for mobile networks with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, creating solutions and platforms to transform the mobile infrastructure towards the new future of containers and 5G. Taking advantage of the cloud-native network functions provided by Mavenir and the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform with Red Hat OpenShift, the intent is to develop common solution blueprints for transformation to 5G for Mavenir's 5G Core, vRAN and IMS workloads. "We are proud to work with a leading company like Red Hat to certify our workloads and to continue to demonstrate the capabilities of Mavenir cloud-native software," said Pardeep Kohli, president and CEO of Mavenir.
Google and the Linux Foundation announced they are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development, Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor. While there are thousands of Linux kernel developers, all of whom take security into consideration as the due course of their work, this contribution from Google to underwrite two full-time Linux security maintainers signals the importance of security in the ongoing sustainability of open source software.